Politics

  As Tweeted by former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose.    

Kogi West Senatorial election which was conducted on Saturday November 16, has been declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).   The election was declared inconclusive by the returning officer Professor Olayinde Lawal who disclosed that the margin between Smart Adeyemi ...

Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected results announced so far in the Kogi West Senatorial District rerun election. According to Melaye, the election was marred by malpractices and violence. “The innovation is that what we ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Collation officer in Igalamela-Odolu Local Government Area of Kogi State presented a N50k bribe he was offered as he reeled out the result of the election conducted within the district on Saturday November 16.   Though some ...

As Tweeted by Senator Dino Melaye.  

Governor Seriake Dickson has called for outright cancellation of the elections in Nembe Local Government Area where 20 people were reportedly killed by gunmen at a PDP campaign rally.   Dickson made the statement while speaking with newsmen shortly after ...

Opinions on Twitter useem to be divided after a video of Dino Melaye paying a woman to fry and share bean cake (akara) to voters surfaced.   Eyewitnesses revealed that the woman was frying akara near a voting area when ...

  The Deputy Director, Public Communications of the Kogi State Peoples Democratic Party Campaign Council, Usman Austin, on Saturday, raised the alarm that two young men who dressed in the uniform of officials of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense ...

  Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega has decried the failure of the electoral process to entrench good governance in Africa.   Jega stated this on Thursday, November 14th at the University of Ibadan, ...

First Lady Aisha Buhari who turned up with other All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains for the party’s rally for the governorship election scheduled to hold in Kogi State on November 16, begged residents of the state to forgive Governor Yahaya Bello stating ...

A federal high court judgement which disqualified the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate, David Lyon in the Bayelsa Governorship election scheduled for November 16 has been suspended by the Court of Appeal.   We reported that on Wednesday November 13, ...

Ahead of the Saturday November 16th Kogi West Senatorial district rerun election, Dino Melaye, has stated that unknown gunmen stormed his brother’s house in the early hours of today November 15, and attacked him.   He made the claim via his ...

  Justice Jane Inyang of the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, has declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no candidate for the November 16th governorship election in the state.   She gave the ruling in a ...

  The Deputy Inspector General of Police (Operations) Abdulmajid Ali has announced that the deployment of Usman Shugaba, a former Aide de Camp (ADC) to Governor Yahaya Bello to supervise the Governorship election has been reversed after the Nigerian police was petitioned by ...

  The Supreme Court will give a detailed explanation on Friday, November 15th why it dismissed on 30 October the appeal by Atiku Abubakar and his party, the PDP against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives ...

  Ahead of this weekend’s gubernatorial election in Kogi State, Senator Dino Melaye has accused the APC and Governor Yahaya Bello of sending thugs to shoot sporadically at opposition leaders.   Sharing photos of gunshot riddled walls and cars, Dino ...

  Leaders of the All Progressives Congress APC, in Edo State have suspended the state governor, Godwin Obaseki, his deputy governor, Philip Shuaibu and the Secretary to the state Government, Osarodion Ogie for alleged anti party activities.   The suspension ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for the sum of N10bn to be paid to the Kogi State government as refund for projects executed on behalf of the federal government, has been approved by the Senate.   The approval came after the chairman of the senate ...

The 2019 Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has warned the promoters of anti-hate speech bill to think twice as they might be shrinking the democratic space.   Recall LIB reported that the anti-hate speech bill ...

Shu’aibu Haruna, the Deputy Speaker of Gombe State House of Assembly has been impeached.   The impeachment process against the lawmaker representing Kwami East constituency was commenced following a motion moved by Adamu Pata, the lawmaker representing Yamaltu East, which was seconded by ...

  Senator Dino Melaye who will be contesting in the Kogi West Senatorial District election alongside Senator Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on November 16, has alleged that the Nigerian police is plotting to plant arms in his ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday November 12, disqualified the All Progressives Congress (APC) Deputy Governorship candidate Biobarakuma Degi.   Biobarakuma Degi was disqualified for reportedly submitting a false information to the Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC) in his CF0001 form ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has reacted to the Court of Appeal judgement which upheld the petition of All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate Adebayo Adelabu, but neither sacked him nor ordered a rerun election.   Adelabu headed to the ...

Edward Onoja, the Kogi state deputy governor has asked PDP youths to stop enslaving themselves to Ibrahim Idris and Wada family of Kogi.   In a video he released, Onoja said it’s time for the PDP youths to wake up ...

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Godswill Akpabio has secured a win at the court of appeal which sat in Cross River State’s capital Calabar, as the court ordered a rerun election in Akwa Ibom north-west senatorial district he contested in on the platform ...